SKAB’ing M³ - Macro Meso Micro - The ETS Competence Model(s) for Organisations

Welcome again to the world of SKAB’ing, where we sail around the concept of competence-based approach trying to unveil the four competence’s dimensions: Skills, Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours. In this exploration, we dive deep into the core elements that shape our overlapping personal and professional landscapes. Within the SKAB’ing framework, we identified two conceptual focuses:

• 1) for individuals (trainers, youth workers, educators)
• 2) for organisations

This call, SKAB’ing M³ - Macro Meso Micro, is for organisations. A strategic programme aimed at organisational development, driving systemic change and fostering learning organisations by analysing the different levels the European Training Strategy is focusing on:

• Your organisation, its role and position in the youth field (Macro), with an emphasis on how it can contribute to and benefit from systemic change across the sector;
• Your organisation as a whole, with its internal dynamics, awareness, strategies, processes, and procedures (Meso), focusing on developing a culture of continuous learning and adaptation;
• The individuals of your organisation, like paid staff and volunteers (Micro), and their role in driving systemic change and contributing to the organisation’s evolution into a learning organisation.

This is an invitation for organisations and people regularly involved in organisations -  legal representatives, project managers, project coordinators, trainers, youth workers and volunteers - to apply for the SKAB’ing M³ module and to embark on a journey focused on competence development and capacity building and systemic change for organisations through the lenses of the ETS (European Training Strategy), with the following format:

Prep Phase: Preparation phase with the group of participants’ (online and asynchronous) from the beginning of November 2024

Training Activity 1: 06. - 12. January 2025 in Weimar (Germany)

Practice phase: the practice phase, to be implemented in between Activity 1 and Activity 2, will be designed in a co-creation process between the trainers’ team and the group of participants.

Training Activity 2: 16. – 22. June 2025 in Tauchen (Austria) – current call

Follow-up: Online Follow-up Phase with the participants’ group (agreed on together)

This SKAB’ing module and its activities will provide opportunities to explore:

• The ETS and how organisations can benefit from it
• The Competence-based approach in non- formal education
• The ETS Competence Model for Youth Workers and how it can be used for organisations
• How to identify, map, assess, develop organisational competencies
• How to implement competence-based development plans
• How to support organisations’ staff competencies development
• How to deal with organisational change management
• Self-discovery and self-paced learning.

SKAB’ing Board (elements tackled in the training A1 & A2)

Based on the topics we have, the programme will be the dynamic outcome of a shared co-creative and collaborative process: it can organically grow, change with proposals from participants; topics, timings, spaces will be chosen by participants in the frame of self-directed learning and non-linear learning. You can find our starting points in the “circular” programmes below.

Activity 1

• Who is here: people, organisations (and places)
• The profile of the present partner organisations’: background, what they do, with/for whom, why
• Why a competence based approach for organisations?
• What are the competences of our organisations?
• Playing with the ETS Competence Model for youth workers: how to use it for organisations?
• Plan C: (co-)creation a competence-based development plan
• Discussion on the role of organisations in driving systemic change in the youth field
• Initial discussions on organisational change management
• Practice Phase
• Exploration of the macro, meso, and micro levels the European Training Strategy focuses on
• Analysis of organisational dynamics, strategies, and processes

Activity 2 (current call)

• Review and reflection on the practice phase outcomes
• Advanced exploration of systemic change within organisations
• Deep dive into implementing and sustaining a learning organisation culture
• Further development and refinement of competence-based development plans
• Peer-to-peer learning and sharing of experiences from the practice phase
• Collaborative workshops on supporting staff competencies development
• Application of the ETS Competence Model in complex organisational scenarios
• Planning for follow-up and continued collaboration

Expected profile of participants

People regularly involved in civil society / youth organisations, legal representatives, project managers, project coordinators, trainers, youth workers and volunteers coming from Erasmus+ programme countries to work on competence development, capacity building and systemic change for organisations through the lenses of the European Training Strategy.